A Mother's Story (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

Vanderbilt, Gloria

ISBN 10: 0783818866 / ISBN 13: 9780783818863

Published by G K Hall & Co, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Mother's Story (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0783818866
• ISBN 13: 9780783818863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1761643510.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47302157
• Signed: 10/28/2025 9:25:10 AM
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Synopsis

Looking back on her own traumatic childhood and the early death of her husband, the author discusses her anguish over the suicide of her twenty-four-year-old son and her struggle to cope with the pain and grief over the death of her child

Review

In 1988, Gloria Vanderbilt's 23-year-old son Carter committed suicide. As Vanderbilt looked on, Carter swung away from the terrace wall of her 14th-floor New York apartment and, in Vanderbilt's words, "He let go." In this poignant memoir, Vanderbilt reflects on her own painful history and what she describes as "the final loss, the fatal loss that stripped me bare." She thought, she says, that she could not survive the death of her son. This memoir is a testimony to her courage and her own return to life.